TERRA 1012: Fungiphilia Rising

Produced by Madison McClintock

Synopsis

Synopsis:
An ode to nature’s often forgotten alchemists and their allies. Fungiphilia Rising is an invitation to explore the fascinating world of mushrooms throughout the American West. By attending mushroom forays and fungus festivals, talking to scores of individuals from mycologists to artists, businessmen to locovore chefs, Fungiphilia Rising paints a vivid image of the secret life of mushrooms and its admirers. In addition to revealing the multifaceted role mushrooms play in our culture, the film aims to bring awareness to the important ecological functions they perform in our world’s ecosystems and in human environments.

Category:

You may also like

Not long ago, as the human population around Mozambique’s Moribane Forest Reserve grew and encroached on the forest, conflicts with elephants increased as the animals ravaged farm plots and banana groves. But with hel...

A small group of Ecuadorians, united under the name of Itapoa, are buying up remaining land in the Choco Rainforest of Ecuador. Only 5% of its original size, very little of which is protected, the Choco once covered t...

This short film explains why migratory sea birds arrive to the island of Chiloé, and the different migrations that the birds make. It shows how important wetlands are in giving these birds shelter, as well as exposes ...

Researchers at Kenyan universities were faced with a problem: the weather forecasts that they were providing weren’t being taken seriously. Faced with climate change and climatic extremes, farmers were losing crops an...

Episode Stats

5.69KViews0Comments0Likes

About the Producer

I’ve been known to chase mushroom hunters through Montana forests, chat with doomsday
preppers about their theories about the government, deeply ponder the implications of selftransendence,
and explore many other strange and curious things for the sake of film. I attribute
my most valuable educational experiences to experiential learning and love to immerse myself in
other worlds and cultures. As a result, I am particularly interested in how filmmaking can be used
as a creative medium to explore the extraordinary ways humans interact with their environments
as well as how film as a form of expression can help people rediscover their childlike curiosity
about the world.